In the last couple of years the name of Cixing has become very popular among the flat knitting industry. Producing right from computerized knitting machines, seamless underwear knitting machines to pantyhose jacquard knitting machines, Cixing has been giving tough competition to the already established European machine manufacturers and has not only captured the Chinese market, but Bangladesh, India, South Korea, Russia, Hong Kong and other 22 regions also.
In Bangladesh, 3,500 machines are in the pipeline and the company hopes to sell at least 5,000 machines by the end of this year. To cater to this huge market, the company is planning to setup a training centre in Bangladesh to prepare technicians for the after-sales service requirements of such a large number of machines. “A 42,000 sq. ft. complex would be established in Gazipur with 300 flat knitting machines for training not only the technicians but also the operators and machine programmers.
As of now, we have already trained up to 600 people in Bangladesh this year,” informed Zalal Uddin Tuhin, Deputy Managing Director, Cixing Bangladesh. With this development, the company believes it will enable them to sell more machines and pick new customers while retaining the old ones. Along with the training centre, the company is also planning to setup an assembly factory next year in Bangladesh. “We have decided to take this step and invest more in the Bangladeshi market because we know that the sweater business will never move out of Bangladesh,” said Tuhin.
The highlight of the company’s show was the HP series of flat knitting machines equipped with single carriage and double system. Equipped with ‘Dynamic Stitch’ function which allows modification of the stitch tension during the same row of a pattern and the ‘Dynamic Speed’ function that makes possible to change its machine speed in the same row of a pattern, the machine promises a reduction in production time by 20%. With new control system, it is possible to interconnect all the machines with a central server, enabling the manufacturers to share pattern files and perform better production control.
